The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1887-07-07
clad. starving pllysi,alty. morally and

clad. starving physically. morallsand
ii"itaily. while Hien are standing
around la idlene~s because there il no
employment for them, Their places
have been taken by women and chill
dren and imported Iaapers under the
contract system. because protected
capital employed iii manufacturers
can make greater profits hs employ
ing women. children and conyirts t.
IL, tho place Of tire strong able
bodied men thrown ont Of employ.
ment. Where. weas.>. isthe prospect
t. prohibition should bring docs
it not require something beside the
destruction OF whisky to bring pros.
perity to our country.
Now let ~ 20 to the keystone state.
whore personal liberty and whisky
flow nndisturbed. where the coal and
iron and steel interests are protected
to the Very verg" Of robbery Of the
public: where labor is depressed to
lower conditions than exist elsewhere
in America the Paradise that Sam
Randall has prepared for laborin.
men, is thus graphically and truth.
fully described IL it is in the rich
mining and protected districts:
Dying women dragged out to die
sick children flung out on dung-piles
old men tottering into. the grave,
sheltered from lie pitiess blast in
the snow-clad bitches. lmlf-naked
children. shivering and starving
driven out with cries and lalnellta
tions from the shelter Of Il mi~erabl.
roof and the poor comfort of fire
As each family or occupant was III
| housed the obscene birds that hover
| eel in the track of the sheriff begar
their work. paraiine oil was strewr
over the roof. the spark was applied
and sooon the Shanty was Il roaring
sheet Of flame.
The existence Of such conditions
and the daily occurrence OF such
scenes forbid that reasonable. think
ing. rejecting lnen and women shall
assume that either license or prohi
bition is the paramount issue to com.
before our people do-day. wlateyel
it may be in the future.
There is a balm in Gilead.' II i,
the repeal of present unjust laws
the abrogation OF the vicious system
which they have encouraged. coun
! tenanced and aided i'm building up
Labor must have protection. No
!, the protection given it in the Morri!
tariff, but the protection that restore
to the government its prercgative
to be used for the promotion of til,
general welfare Of all the people
that pays the bonded debt and re
lieves labor from supporting hiy,
full Of millionaire wealth absorbing
non-taA paying drones: that make
intelligence, integrity and worth
instead OF money the measure O
ones fitness to lead and to govern
that placescorporations. organized t
transact the duties OF common ear
riers under the absolute control q
law. without commissioners or other
authorized to grant immnnities iron
penalties incurred from its infraction
that restores to the government tn,
sole and exclusive power to issu
money in any form and that deprive
| the national banks of the power 0
contracting or expanding the cur
rency TO suit their own interests
without regard TO the higher an.
more sacred rights of the people: tina
reclaims from railroad corporation
every acre of the unearned Ian,
grants and opens them up to settle
nent by the wealth producers: tina
Incorporates into law the principle
enunciated by the Union Labor part
at Cincinnati. and which may be rea,
by the inquiring reader OH ourfour,l
page.